Thanks Gregory, your explanation worked for me. In Ubuntu 10.04 I just went to the Places menu, where I spotted the Guest Additions CD. Selecting that mounted the CD and opened it up. From there I just ran autorun.sh and everything got installed.
Otis ----- Original Message ---- > From: Gregory Nowak <[email protected]> > To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users ><[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 11:17:37 PM > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Can't mount VBoxGuestAdditions.iso > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 04:48:33PM -0700, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > I *did* mount the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file in Virtual Media Manager and > > I >can > > > > > see there that it is attached to my guest VM. However, I don't see it >mounted > > > as a CD/DVD drive in my guest VM. My understanding is that after I mount > > it >in > > > the Virtual Media Manager, I should see the ISO file mounted in my guest > > VM, >but > > > You just said it. What you did in the virtual media manager is to > attach the cd-rom to the machine, you didn't mount the cd yet. Think > of what you did in the virtual media manager as opening the tray on a > real cd-rom drive, placing a cd inside it, and closing it. This just > puts the cd into the drive, but doesn't mount it. In order to mount > the cd you just inserted, you need to do something like: > > mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom > > I don't use ubuntu here, so this may not be exact, but it should give > you an idea of how to mount the cd inside a text terminal. As far as I > know, cd's should automount in gnome, so your disk may already be > mounted, but I stand to be corrected on that. If none or most of this > doesn't make sense to you, then I'd strongly suggest you become > familiar with GNU/Linux basics before you move on. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkyAaNAACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDG5QCg3w30om4HQ1cbFCVNZLwA9sAT > V6EAn2kmt2mmYbsnrmCCEjXXjblRDTv4 > =zvqp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
